the Quincena Festival on 6 August 2013 and continued performing recitals during that season at venues which included St. Petersburg Great Philharmonic Hall, Moscow Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts (December Nights Festival), Vic L'Atlantida, Pamplona Teatro Gayarre, Girona Auditorium. January 2014 saw her performing the soprano solo in Pergolesi's Stabat Mater with I Barocchisti, conducted by Diego Fasolis at the Essen Philharmonie, Festspielhaus Baden-Baden, Concertgebouw in Amsterdam and the KKL. Season 2014 - 2015: Recital at the Bolshoi, Debut at the Royal Opera House and 'Handel' CD Lezhneva started the season with Handel's Alessandro in concert version at the Tchaikovsky Concert Hall. The performance was followed by a recital at the Bolshoi Theatre. In addition to her live performances Lezhneva recorded Handel, a new solo album with Il Giardino Armonico. The album was released in October 2015 on the Decca label. Season 2015 - 2016: Handel tour and Six Operas Lezhneva's opera performances included Zerlina in Don Giovanni on the Royal Opera House's on Japan tour in September 2015; Laodice in Hasse's Siroe in Kraków, Moscow and Amsterdam in October 2015; Asteria in Handel's Tamerlano at the Amsterdam Concertgebouw and Barbican Hall in November 2015; Almirena in Handel's Rinaldo on a concert tour with Il Pomo d'Oro in February 2016; Desdemona in Rossini's Otello at the Liceu in February 2016 (her house debut); and Fiordiligi in Mozart's Così fan tutte at the Hessisches Staatstheater Wiesbaden in May 2016. Discography As of 30 November 2011, Lezhneva is an exclusive DECCA solo artist. Bach: Mass in B minor. Label: Naïve Records Rossini Arias. Label: Naïve Records Vivaldi: Ottone in villa – Verónica Cangemi, Sonia Prina, Julia Lezhneva, Topi Lehtipuu, Roberta Invernizzi; Il Giardino Armonico, Giovanni Antonini (conductor). Label: Naïve Records RV729 Handel: Alessandro. Label: Decca Classics Vivaldi: L'oracolo in Messenia. Label: Virgin Classics Alleluia - Vivaldi, Handel, Porpora, Mozart (four motets), with Il Giardino Armonico, Giovanni Antonini Label: Decca Classics Stabat Mater (Pergolesi), Laudate pueri, Confitebor tibi domine. duet album with Philippe Jaroussky: Erato/Warner Classics Siroe (Hasse). World premiere recording, with Max Emanuel Cenčić and Franco Fagioli, released by Decca Classics. G. F. Handel's great early works written during his trip to Italy (La Resurrezione, Il Trionfo del Tempo e del DIsinganno, Dixit Dominus, Salve regina, Apollo e Daphne, Rodrigo, Agrippina), with Il Giardino Armonico / Giovanni Antonini - DECCA Classics, 2015 Awards Diapason d'Or de l'Année 'Young Artist': Rossini Arias CD